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I think there's a big personal mental block with reading, and that the "vote of confidence" I'm getting from Lute is helping a lot with that.

I was skimming ahead in the gospel today to clear out all the proper names (so I can get better data). Otherwise I am only 500 words in, and I'm already encountering multiple verses in a row where every single word is stuff I know. To some degree this just speaks to how repetitive John is though.

But yeah, when you know 80% of a page, it lets you be confident about that, and parse that quickly, so you can focus on the 20% you do know. That's profoundly useful as a total autodidact with language learning. 80% comprehension goes from this really unfun slog where half the sentences are basically unintelligible (because of missing critical uncommon words) to suddenly being relatively easy. It's like before 85-90% was the amount of comprehension where reading felt productive, and now I feel that it can be productive reading as low as like 50-60%, or even as low as almost no words (but it becomes vocab study at that point rather than reading).